CAPTAIN CRAIGOn behalf of the lion. Member for South Antrim, I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that on June 9th a case of cruelty to animals was perpetrated on an evicted farm on the Ellis estate at Abbeyfeale, county Limerick, when a cow was covered with paraffin and set fire to, and had subsequently to be destroyed; and will he say whether the police have any information as to the guilty person or persons, and as to the motive for the crime.
MR. BRYCEI am informed by the police authorities that the fact is as stated in the first part of the Question. The police are pursuing their enquiries in the case, but have not yet succeeded in bringing the offender to justice. The police have no information as the motive of the offender, and oven if they had it would be undesirable to state the fact.